FAIRTRADE AND CLIMATE JUSTICE

Name & Job Title

 THE REALITY OF
THE CLIMATE
CRISIS FOR THE
FARMERS BEHIND
OUR FOOD
THE REALITY OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS

Smallholder farmers:
• are crucial to global food security “There is a chain on earth that starts where
the producers are.
They are the ones who suffer the
• have contributed the least consequences of climate change, the ones
to climate change who get the least help, and carry all of the
burden. It’s not fair.”
but are disproportionately
affected by it
Bayardo Betanco,
Prodecoop coffee co-operative, Nicaragua
• For generations
have experienced chronic
poverty
THE REALITY OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS

Climate change means farmers experience:

• More volatile, less predictable seasons

• Floods/droughts

• High temperature

• More plant diseases

• Loss of fertile land

• Crop destruction

• Lack of food
THE REALITY OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS

• By 2050 as much as 50 percent of the global surface

area currently used for coffee farming may no longer be
suitable due to the changing climate

• By 2050 adverse climate conditions will trigger a drastic

decline in bananas yields in 10 countries, including
India, Brazil and Colombia

• By 2050 many cocoa growing regions in Ghana and

Côte d’Ivoire – who produce over half of the world’s
cocoa – will become too hot to grow the crop
THE IMPACT OF COVID

The same communities now

face:

• Falling crop prices

• Loss of access to markets

• Direct impacts in already

vulnerable communities
YOUR SUPPORT OF FAIRTRADE IS PART OF THE SOLUTION

Fairtrade enables improvements in

livelihoods through:

• Bringing farmers together into Co-

operatives

• The protection of a minimum price for

their crops

• Extra money from Fairtrade Premiums

that farmers control

More money means more climate

resilience and environmental protection
NORANDINO COFFEE CO-OPERATIVE, PERU

Peruvian farmers’ quest to continue growing

coffee.

‘We're suffering from climate change - from

plagues and sickness... Before fruits were
produced for the family’s income (and
consumption) but now we depend on coffee
for our income. Subsequently the soil
degrades because only one crop is grown.”

-Juan Justo Humamam, a member of

the Norandino coffee co-operative.
NORANDINO COFFEE CO-OPERATIVE, PERU

‘La Roya’, also known as ‘Coffee rust disease.’ It is so

described because when you rub the underside of the
coffee leaves, a rust-like yellow powder appears.
NORANDINO COFFEE CO-OPERATIVE, PERU

The Norandino co-operative's enterprise producing organic

compost which has reduced the costs for farmers by 50%
YOU ARE PART OF THE
SOLUTION
GLOBAL SUMMITS & CLIMATE JUSTICE IN 2021

“A frustrating conclusion to a
summit filled with hope.”

Mary Kinyua, Fairtrade’s lead COP26

delegate, and a Fairtrade flower farmer
representative.
YOU CAN CHOOSE THE WORLD YOU WANT

Action on climate change is on our

hands:

• Choosing Fairtrade is one simple decision

• Join us in Fairtrade Fortnight 2022 to

show support

• Email your MP to demand urgent delivery

of the climate funding promised by the UK
government.
TAKE CLIMATE ACTION IN 2022

Take action this Fairtrade Fortnight

2022 by emailing your MP to demand
urgent delivery of the climate funding
promised by the UK government.

Farmers can use this funding to take on

the climate crisis with innovative eco-
friendly techniques.